Re: graphical startup hangs on plymouth

2017-01-06 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 5, 2017 10:24 PM, "Greg Woods" wrote: On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:46 PM, stan wrote: > > > It sounds like a race condition. Does it occur intermittently? That > is, if it happens and you hit the hard reset button, does it > then sometimes boot correctly and sometimes not? I confess th

Re: graphical startup hangs on plymouth

2017-01-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > This thread does make me think about checking out what the plymouth-quit > service is actually supposed to be doing. All it really does is "plymouth --wait", which doesn't help unless the details of how Plymouth works are known, which they are

Re: graphical startup hangs on plymouth

2017-01-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:46 PM, stan wrote: > > > It sounds like a race condition. Does it occur intermittently? That > is, if it happens and you hit the hard reset button, does it > then sometimes boot correctly and sometimes not? I confess that I have not tried rapid and repeated reboots. H

Re: graphical startup hangs on plymouth

2017-01-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/06/17 04:31, Greg Woods wrote: > This is a problem that my wife's laptop has had for quite some time. That > system is > updated relatively frequently. The problem has just started happening on my > server, > which is fairly far out of date now, so it couldn't have been a recent update >

Re: graphical startup hangs on plymouth

2017-01-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/05/2017 12:31 PM, Greg Woods wrote: What happens basically is this: Dec 27 09:01:16 worldsys.gregandeva.net systemd[1]: Starting Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit... This message appears on the console and the timer counter starts. The counter never st

Re: graphical startup hangs on plymouth

2017-01-05 Thread stan
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 13:31:15 -0700 Greg Woods wrote: > but I am curious > as to whether anyone else has ever seen this and where I might look > to find information to troubleshoot it. I haven't seen this, though I'm on F25 so that doesn't help you much. It sounds like a race condition. Does it

graphical startup hangs on plymouth

2017-01-05 Thread Greg Woods
This is a problem that my wife's laptop has had for quite some time. That system is updated relatively frequently. The problem has just started happening on my server, which is fairly far out of date now, so it couldn't have been a recent update causing this, and the server itself has had no packag